Recommendations For DXVA (1 Viewer)

[crazyfool]

hey guys,
This has been bugging me for a while and i'm currently in between vista and xp to see which one works best but i still cant get the damn thing to work. I have a 780g motherboard so i'm using the onboard hd3200 as my gpu. I bought the system about 6 months ago after it was recommended as i good and passive solution for a htpc. How wrong i was! The hd3200 has given me nothing but problems with mediaportal mainly because of the ati drivers which seem to break more then they fix. I'm currently thinking of buying an nvidia card, preferably a 8400gs as they are cheap
and should have enough muscle for blu ray playback. I have a 3450 ati card lying around but it is essentialy the same as the onboard hd3200 so i dont know if it worth testing that. I'm going to try the 8.12 catalyst drivers tomorrow and prey they work otherwise i'm going to be looking for a graphics card... any suggestions...

 

[krikkit]

i also have a 780g motherboard... running it since 2 days with vista x64... and everything is working and not a single bsod...

i can recommend the following
- forget SAF (standalone filter pack) ..it caused flickering for me and async audio on hdtv streams

i only installed the following:
- vista x64
- catalyste 9.1 grapics driver + raid + southbridge driver (from ati website)
- rest of the driver newest from asus site (i have a m3a-h/hdmi mobo with amd 4850e)
- mediaportal 1.0
- haali media splitter
- ffdshow
- powerdvd 8 (latest version from website)
-qtlite (for mytrailers plugin)

- filter setup in MP, everything to default (mp filter), except for h264 (hdtv) i user powerdvd filter
- evr enabled, dxva for hdtv too

 

[CCob]

I have a 780G mobo also. Don't go with XP and VMR, i tried XP first and when using DXVA it used to tear like crazy.

I then switched to Vista and EVR, but make sure you have Aero ON, otherwise you will still get tearing when watching DXVA content.

 

[fabien44]

I have a 780G mobo also. Don't go with XP and VMR, i tried XP first and when using DXVA it used to tear like crazy.

I then switched to Vista and EVR, but make sure you have Aero ON, otherwise you will still get tearing when watching DXVA content.

Why? I use same mobo under XP + VMR9 with no problem at all. Superb picture. I tested Vista + EVR before and it was lower quality.

 

[CCob]

Why? I use same mobo under XP + VMR9 with no problem at all. Superb picture. I tested Vista + EVR before and it was lower quality.

Simple really, The original poster was asking for suggestions, and that was mine.

I found that XP + VMR9 was tearing like crazy when playing 24hz content with a 24Hz refresh rate on my TV. So my opinion would be to use Vista and not XP, I guess yours is the opposite.